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threatsome en · ADJ

Etymology

From threat + -some.

Meanings

1. Characterised or marked by threat; threatening
   • The second act depicts the deadly combat of Be-a-Wolf and Grumble, a loathly, threatsome monster in red burlaps, and ended in the utter overthrow of the power of evil with no perceptible effort on Be-a-Wolf's part. 1903, The Vassar Miscellany, volume 33:
   • The clouds shut in once more, and a threatsome wind stirred the trees, and Fayre gave over his song and raced back to town out of the weather that was beginning to happen. 1929, Maristan Chapman, Homeplace:

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